US presidents and former presidents survived assassination attempts
According to CNN, in the pre-Civil War era, President Andrew Jackson was shot while attending a funeral at the Capitol. The shooter fired twice but was unsuccessful.
Like the shooting of Donald Trump , former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for re-election during the 1912 campaign. He was shot on his way to a speech in Milwaukee. Roosevelt later said a copy of his 50-page speech slowed the bullet even though it remained in his body for the rest of his life. He gave a speech despite the shooting.
Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president when an assassin shot at him in Miami in 1933. The shooter, Guiseppe Zangara, missed Mr. Roosevelt but killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
Mr. Harry Truman , who assumed the presidency after Mr. Roosevelt's death, was shot by Puerto Rican nationalists in 1950.
Alabama Governor George Wallace, a segregationist running for president for the third time in 1972, was shot after a campaign event outside Washington, D.C. The shooting left him paralyzed from the waist down .
President Gerald Ford faced two consecutive assassination plots in 1975. Lynette “Sqeaky” Fromme, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson, was killed before he could open fire on Mr. Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California. A few weeks later, a woman named Sara Jane Moore shot at Mr. Ford in San Francisco but missed.
President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC, after giving a speech. His press secretary, James Brady, was more seriously injured and later became a gun control activist. Mr. Reagan's shooter, John Hinckley, had to spend decades in a mental hospital. This person was released from court supervision in 2022.
An Idaho man was charged with plotting to assassinate President Barack Obama in 2011.
All US presidents have faced threats, and all former US presidents also receive lifetime protection from the Secret Service.
Four US presidents died by assassination
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die by assassination. He was shot in the back of the head in 1865 during an appearance at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth, an actor in that night's play. Booth fled the scene and was captured and shot several weeks later in Virginia.
President James Garfield was shot at a train station in Washington, DC, in July 1881. He died from his injuries a few months later, in September, in New Jersey.
President Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a mentally ill disgruntled man angry at not getting a job in Mr. Garfield's administration. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the same year.
President William McKinley was shot in September 1901 in Buffalo, New York by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by sniper Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in November 1963 while he was in an open limousine. Oswald was arrested a few days after the shooting. Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner.
Robert F. Kennedy - President John F. Kennedy 's younger brother - was a senator from New York when he ran for president in 1968. Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night he won the election. won the California Democratic primary.
Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded when 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, shot him with a pistol, reportedly in retaliation for his support of Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War. Robert F. Kennedy died later 25 hours.
Sirhan was arrested, tried and convicted, and Kennedy's assassination , like his brother's, continues to be the subject of widespread analysis and conspiracy theories.
